The tattoo

In full color. I was worried about liking it colored in since I lived with it in black and grey for a while. I should have never worried. Pat Fish is an amazing artist.

Pictures

So I finally found my memory stick reader attachment, would you believe it was buried under a pile of yarn. No really it was under a pile of yarn.
First the pictures of the two purses that are languishing because they need straps...


The body on the knit bag just needs to be seamed at the bottom, and my stitch holder is a pen since I can only seem to find one of my bamboo DPs. Once I find the second one I'll get rolling on this again. The crochet bag is back in business, in fact I am almost done with the straps since I picked it up yesterday. I can crochet mindlessly while the kids are up which helps.
Now the last two bags I sewed. I think I'm going to have a hard time letting go of the plaid one, since my plan is to sell them.


So these are just a few of my projects. The extra pink plaid I still have is going to be another purse and then a skirt. I still have some of the people fabric too but there are no plans for it. Next time tattoo pictures in full color.

Still chugging along.

So it looks like every 4 days I get some time to post on this thing. Oh well, I try. I signed up for the Candy Along, and I'm trying to figure out what to make with my yarn. It's the Circus Peanut yarn that mouse snagged from the GSR box. I love those circus peanut things and I absolutely needed the yarn.
The only problem is that I think it needs a carry along to have enough substance to make anything I want to make out of it. It's a yarn called OnLine Linie 58 Calypso... even the website didn't help. In fact I had to have the website translated just to see if I could find anything on it of use to me. I also can't find any place that carries it anymore. I believe they stopped production on this yarn and moved on to others. I'm now sad. I'll never be able to match the circus peanut color, and it's a light enough color that anything I carry it with will show through. At the moment it is being knit into the beginning stages of a shawl.
Tonight I will take a picture, barring extreme tiredness. I swear. The tattoo is healing nicely, I will take a picture of that too.

So I guess I have read quite a few of these.

Mouse has this on her web site. I figured it would be interesting to see just how many I had read. My count is 35. A couple of the 35 were selections from the whole set. Then there are others that I didn't italicize because I hadn't read the specific work, ie Faulkner, Cather and Kingston. Can we tell I used to be an English major.

Beowulf
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son

So pictures soon.

Went Sunday to get my tattoo finished. Gorgeous. It really does look like a dutch still-life. I will take pictures tonight. It's not healed yet, but it's still pretty. Also pictures of a lot of the projects I am working on. The two bags that I have to finish and the scarf I am working on and the afghans and the, ok, you get the idea. I won't regale you with the whole list. Maybe just all of the pictures. I need to find one of those project counters that show how far done they are and post that.

What I really did with my day off.

I had all of these things planned to do. Well, I did none of those things.
I made a purse instead. My obsession is with purses. I've loved purses since I was a little girl. Now I make them, with the very real intention of selling them at some point.
Somewhere in my pile of stuff is a knit bag that needs it's handle. I hate hate hate knitting ten stitches back and forth. It bores me to death. I also have a purse that I was crocheting with Lion Brand Microspun, done except for the damn handle. I guess my main problem is being repetitive. That would be why I work on twenty million projects at once.

My crafty self.

I have the day off. After writing this post I'm going to go play in my fabric. I am still in the process of cutting squares out for blankets. It's a time consuming job.

Then I bought some jewelry making supplies to make my own stitch counters. I have already made a set for my crochet with safety pins and glass beads. This set will be
for my knitting with 10mm jump rings and beads a little bigger than seed beeds.

Cast on a hat with Lamb's Pride Bulky in RPM Pink. Was knitting along, actually knit and purling, when I realized that when I joined my circle, I twisted my stitches. I was going to make a moeibus hat, oops. It wasn't big enough for a scarf. It has been put aside to be ripped out at a later date.

So now off to craft. Maybe I can finish something today.

I work a 40 hour week and still don't have time to craft.

Since I now hold a mostly full time position at my own neighborhood fabric and craft giant I don't have any time to do anything else. Every time I sit down to sew a kid screams, if I try to knit or crochet somebody spills milk, if I try to read my children are in my lap and leaning over my book before I know it. I don't remember if they were always this way or just now because they never see me. On the upside my kids are extra cuddly when I do see them.

I did finish the hat I was knitting for R this weekend. It's too short...so I get a new hat. He says I look like Meg from the family guy in it. Maybe I will actually post a picture of that, though I hate pictures of myself. Every time I make a hat it turns out not right. You would think that simple knitting in the round would be easier than I am making it. I will try again when i get the chance.

One of my projects at the moment is a rag blanket for A. RM already has one, completely Strawberry shortcake fabric, so now it's the boys turn. I have collected an assortment of boy fabrics, blues clues, scooby doo, curious george, sharks, plaid, bugs, cowboys.....now I just have to start cutting the squares. RM's only took me a month to finish because I didn't work on it all the time. So A's will probably take at least that long, I always have too many irons in the crafting fire.